The Balsillie Papers provides clear, concise, peer-reviewed articles about today’s most complex issues in global governance and international affairs.
LATEST PAPER
Beyond the App Store: Reproductive Governance and the Limits of Digital Autonomy
Marika Jeziorek and Natasha Tusikov
Digital contraceptive and fertility-tracking apps are increasingly central to how reproductive autonomy is imagined, marketed and managed. This paper interrogates how digital contraceptive apps govern reproduction through mechanisms of responsibilization, commodification and consent.
RECENT PAPERS
The Economics of the Data-driven Economy and the Demand for Antitrust
Dan CiuriakAntitrust is again in vogue; its long winter has ended. The revival of demand for antitrust is coincident with the advent of a new Gilded Age — this time in the context of an economy built on intangible assets — IP and (later, increasingly) data.
Canada’s Deteriorating AI Position:
A Comparative IP Perspective
James W. Hinton and Fabrice Blais-SavoieThis paper will attempt to show a portrait of the world’s AI patent landscape and explain what happened to Canada’s apparent lead in the field, identify current trends in cross-border AI patenting ownership flows, then evaluate the adequacy of current Canadian policy and chart a path forward.
Accelerating Canada’s Economic Transformation towards Industry 5.0: The Synergistic Potential of the Electric Vehicle (EV) Sector
Jatin Nathwani and Artie NgThis paper identifies options of industrial development that are transformative and stand as unique contributors with high-potential for fostering sustainable economic growth, reduced carbon emissions, and stable levels of employment opportunities.